4This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created. When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens-


In Context

1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.

3 And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created. When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens-

5 and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground,

6 but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground-

Genesis 2:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:4These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:4These are the generations of the heaven and the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the heaven and the earth:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:4These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:4These are the histories of the heavens and the earth, when they were created, in the day that Jehovah Elohim made earth and heavens,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:4These are the generations of the heaven and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:4These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:4This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:4These are births of the heavens and of the earth in their being prepared, in the day of Jehovah God's making earth and heavens;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:4These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,